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Tuesday, May 07, 2002


Re: Nirvana and Moksha -- Bliss and Liberation [ Part I ]

Dear Jeremy:

As I read it, Theosophy offers two ways of considering this.

The FIRST is the view of the Eternal MONAD. It is considered that
each human is such an entity, for whom time is not a limitation. The
MONAD ( ATMA-BUDDHI) or SPIRITUAL PERFECTION and UNIVERSAL WISDOM
combined into a Unit, is deathless. It ever IS. Around it "Monads of
lesser experience" aggregate in order to benefit from its condition of
Perfection. ( S D I 174-5 fn) This is the view point of the Higher
Ego -- of Buddhi-Manas. One might call it the view-point of the
"Heart Doctrine." It is not one we are quite familiar with. Our
usual point of view is as a "Personality," with the "Lower Manas"
(the embodied brain-mind) functioning as a self-conserving and
self-serving way of thinking - This is essentially the "Head doctrine"
>From this 'limiting' perspective we tend to view all conclusions and
futures in terms of the likes and dislikes of our personalities. So
what we need to do is to find out exactly what this Personality (so
dear to us) is, and how it really works. This is what Theosophy deals
with.

The SECOND is the view of our embodied mind -- the Personal man, who
is entrapped in passions and desires, pleasures and pains, and would
like to see some stability whereby he could escape the constant
buffeting of the Law of Karma. The sensation of being an object, and
of being subject to continual pain and suffering, drives many to
believe that by some process this can be halted. In ancient India it
was turned into the philosophy of Liberation (Moksha).

They hear of "Liberation" ( or Moksha -- as spoken of in ancient Hindu
philosophies as a state of peace and bliss for the "soul Pilgrim" --
THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY p. 216) .

They hear of Nirvana as a condition where the individual can
experience a condition of "absolute existence and absolute
consciousness, into which the Ego of a man who has reached the highest
degree of perfection and holiness during life goes, after the body
dies, and occasionally, as in the case of Gautama Buddha and others,
during life." ( THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY , p. 232)

That which follows are some quotations drawn from various original
Theosophical sources -- of course it would be better for each student
to ferret them out for himself, but this is only a selection and can
give rise to a thirst for more definite information.

Briefly, the idea of attaining liberation is a selfish one. We want
the bliss and isolation from sorrow as a personal one. We desire to
retire from the world and from those who are suffering, even from our
near and dear ones. There are known successes in this, achieved after
many years of rigorous self-discipline. But the state so achieved is
not the Ultimate Perfection. It is temporary. And after many aeons,
the Nirvanees and those who attained Moksha (liberation) many cycles
ago will be forced by KARMA to "return." (see S D II 79-80, and
93-4.)

Here are the quotations that seem to offer some of the best views of
this subject, to me.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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NIRMANAKAYA(S)



NIRMANAKAYA (Sk.) Occultism...says: that Nirmanakaya, although
meaning literally a transformed "body;" is a state. The form is that
of an adept or yogi who enters, or chooses that post mortem condition
in preference to the Dharmakaya or absolute Nirvanic state. He does
this because the latter kaya separates him for ever from the world of
form, conferring upon him a state of selfish bliss, in which no other
living being can participate, the adept being thus precluded from the
possibility of helping humanity, or even devas.

As a Nirmanakaya, however, the man leaves behind him only his physical
body, and retains every other "principle" save the Kamic--for he has
crushed this our for ever from his nature, during life, and it can
never resurrect in his post mortem state.

Thus, instead of going into selfish bliss, he chooses a life of
self-sacrifice, an existence which ends only with the life-cycle, in
order to be enabled to help mankind in an invisible yet most effective
manner. (See The Voice of the Silence, third treatise...pp. 69fn,
74, 77 & footnote.)

Thus a Nirmanakaya is...verily one, who whether a Chutuktu or a
Khubilkhan, an adept of a yogi during life, has since become a member
of that invisible Host which ever protects and watches over Humanity
within Karmic limits. Mistaken often for a "spirit," a Deva, God
himself, etc..., a Nirmanakaya is ever a protecting, compassionate,
verily a guardian angel, to him who becomes worthy of his help....no
one will be bold enough to say that this idea of helping suffering
mankind at the price of one's own almost interminable self-sacrifice,
is not one of the grandest and noblest that was ever evolved from
human brain." THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY p. 231 -- HPB


"Nirmanakaya...is that ethereal form which one would assume when
leaving his physical he would appear in his astral body--having in
addition all the knowledge of an Adept. The Bodhisattva develops it
in himself as he proceeds on the Path. Having reached the goal and
refused its fruition, he remains on Earth, as an Adept; and when he
dies, instead of going into Nirvana, he remains in that glorious body
he has woven for himself, invisible to uninitiated mankind, to watch
over and protect it...Thus, to be enabled to help humanity, an Arhat
who has won the right to Nirvana, "renounces the Dharmakaya body" in
mystic parlance; keeps, of the Sambhogakaya, only the great and
complete knowledge, and remains in his Nirmanakaya body. The Esoteric
School teaches that Gautama Buddha, with several of his Arhats, is
such a Nirmanakaya higher than whom, on account of the great
renunciation and sacrifice for mankind, there is none known." VOICE
77-8



NIRMANAKAYA -- INVISIBLE, SPIRITS OF LIVING SAGES


"...those EGOS of great Adepts who have passed away, and are also
known as Nirmanakayas;...for whom--since they are beyond
illusion--there is no Devachan, and who, having either voluntarily
renounced it for the good of mankind, or not yet reached Nirvana,
remain invisible on earth...they are re-born over and over again...Who
they are, "on earth"--every student of Occult science knows..." SD II
615



EVOLUTION OF THE IMMORTAL MAN


"It is the Spiritual evolution of the inner, immortal man that forms
the fundamental tenet in the Occult Sciences...the ONE Universal Life,
independent of matter...and...the individual intelligences that
animate the various manifestations of this Principle...The ONE Life is
closely related to the one law which governs the World of
Being--KARMA." SD I 634



THE ETERNAL MAN


"...the true esoteric meaning is that most of them (the Agnishwatta
Pitris) were destined to incarnate as the Egos of the forthcoming crop
of Mankind. The human Ego is neither Atman nor Buddhi, but the higher
Manas; the intellectual fruition and the efflorescence of the
intellectual self-conscious Egotism--in the higher spiritual sense.
The ancient works refer to it as Karana Sarira on the plane of the
Sutratma, which is the golden thread on which, like beads, the various
personalities of this higher Ego are strung...these beings were
returning Nirvanees, from preceding Maha-Manvantaras--ages of
incalculable duration..."
SD II 79


"...from the Sun to the vital heat of the meanest organic being--the
world of Form and Existence is an immense chain, whose links are all
connected." SD I 604



SAVIOURS OF NATIONS AND OF MEN --
TEACHERS OF TRUTH -- ALIVE NOW


"[The ADEPT]...serves humanity and identifies himself with the whole
world; he is ready to make vicarious sacrifice for it at any
moment--by living not by dying for it. Why should he not die for it?
Because he is part of the whole, and one of the most valuable parts of
it. Because he lives under laws of order which he does not desire to
break. His life is not his own, but that of the forces which work
behind him. He is the flower of humanity, the bloom which contains
the divine seed. He is, in his own person, a treasure of the
universal nature. which is guarded and made safe in order that the
fruition shall be perfected. It is only at definite periods of the
world's history that he is allowed to go among the herd of men as
their redeemer." LIGHT ON THE PATH p. 72-3 [ see also S D
I 207 - 210 ]


"At times they come to nations as great teachers and "saviours," who
only repromulgate the old truths and systems of ethics. This
therefore holds that humanity is capable of infinite perfection both
in time and quality, the saviours and adepts being held up as examples
of that possibility.

>From this living and presently acting body of perfected men
H.P.Blavatsky declared she received the impulse to once more bring
forward the old ideas, and from them also received several keys to
ancient and modern doctrines. Added...to the testimony through all
time found in the records of all nations we have this modern explicit
assertion that the ancient learned and humanitarian body of adepts
still exists on this earth and takes an interest in the development of
the race." WQJ ARTICLES I pp. 1-2



NIRMANAKAYAS WORK -- THEIR RELATIONS WITH US


"Nirmanakayas. They are men who have become perfected--who could if
they chose reach up to and hold the very highest state of bliss, but
who refuse that bliss because it would mean forever to forsake all
chance of helping their fellow-men. They can, when the nature of the
person is true and aspiring strongly, communicate, if it is necessary
to help him. But there is no mistake in these communications. They
are personal, meant for that one as direct help. It is the within
which induces any outside help that we receive. It is a recognition
of the spiritual nature of ourselves and all beings which makes the
true condition. It is from the spiritual that the strength comes.
And it is for the perfection of humanity that all the Divine
Incarnations have labored." RC -- FP p. 258



WE ARE NEVER 'LEFT ALONE," OR "ABANDONED"
BY THE ADEPTS, OR "ELDER BROTHERS"


"Never have we been left alone. Always there are beings greater in
evolution than we, who return to this field of physical existence to
help us, to wake us up to a perception of our natures. Such has been
the mission of all Divine Incarnations down the ages. Those beings
have come and lived among us, have become "in all things like unto
us," as was said of Jesus, in order that the human words They spoke
should be words we would understand. They meet us on the basis of our
ideas and try to clarify them and set them in a true course. They can
do nothing to stop what (338) we have done and what we want to do;
They can not interfere; but They can help us to see the right
direction, if we are so willed...Always They try to help us, even when
we are proceeding along wrong lines and bringing upon ourselves the
suffering such wrong lines entail--even then They try to direct the
results into a better channel..." RC -- FP p. 337-8



"PERFECTED SOULS" -- STAND AS EXAMPLES TO US

"No one can know anything for another. Each one has to know for
himself. Each one has to do his own learning. The object of
Theosophy is to teach man what he is, to show man what he is, and to
present to him the necessity of his knowing for himself. No vicarious
atonement, no vicarious transmission of knowledge, is possible. But
the direction in which knowledge lies can be pointed out; the steps
which will lead us in that direction may be shown, as can be done only
by those who have passed that way before...It is the doctrine of
Krishna, of Buddha, of Jesus, no less than the doctrine of H.P.B...
The very fact of suffering is a blessing. Karma and Reincarnation
show us that suffering is brought about by wrong thought and action;
through our sufferings we may be brought to a realization that a wrong
course has been pursued. We learn through our sufferings.

Life is one grand school of Being, and we have come to that stage
where it is right for us to learn to understand the purpose of
existence; to grasp our whole nature firmly; to use every means in
our power in every direction...to bring the whole of our nature into
accord, so that our lower instrument may be "in line" and thus more
and more fully reflect our divine natures." RC -- FP p.
263



FINAL CHOICE OF NIRVANA OR RENUNCIATION


"... we know that at a certain period of progress, far above this
sublunary world, the adept reaches a point when he may, if he so
chooses, formulate a wish that he might be one of the Devas, one of
the bright host of beings of whose pleasure and glory and power we can
have no idea. The mere formulation of the wish is enough. At that
moment he becomes one of the Devas. He then for a period of time
which in its extent is incalculable, enjoys that condition--then what?
Then he has to begin again low down on the scale, in a mode and for a
purpose which it would be useless to detail here, because it could not
be understood..."
WQJ ARTICLES I pp 8-9



FINAL INITIATION

"Every Buddha meets at his last initiation all the great adepts who
reached Buddhahood during the preceding ages...every class of adepts
has its own bond of spiritual communion which knits them
together...The only possible and effectual way of entering into such
brotherhood...is by bringing oneself within the influence of the
Spiritual light which radiates from one's own Logos...such communion
is only possible between persons whose souls derive their life and
sustenance from the same divine RAY, and that, as seven distinct rays
radiate from the 'Central Spiritual Sun,' all adepts and Dhyan Chohans
are divisible into 7 classes, each of which is guided, controlled, and
overshadowed by one of the 7 forms or manifestations of the divine
wisdom." (S. Rao quoted - THEOSOPHIST, AUG. 1886) SD I 574



SEVEN-FOLD GROUP OF DHYAN CHOHANS -
WATCHERS OVER EVOLUTION

"There are 7 chief groups of such Dhyan Chohans...the primeval SEVEN
Rays. Humanity, occultism teaches, is divided into 7 distinct groups
and their sub-divisions, mental, spiritual, and physical (fn) ...(FN)
Hence the 7 chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling 7 spirits,
under each of which is born one of the human groups which is guided
and influenced thereby. There are only 7 planets (specially connected
with this earth), and 12 houses...countless...each of which varieties
is born under one of the 7 planets and one of the said countless
planetary combinations." SD I 573 & fn


"...'the MIND'...the collective body of Dhyan Chohans, we say--began
to work upon and communicated to it motion and order..." SD I 595


"The hosts of these Sons of Light and "Mind-born Sons" of the first
manifested Ray of the UNKNOWN ALL, are the very root of spiritual
man." SD I 106


"...the 7 wise ones (rays of wisdom, Dhyanis) fashion 7 paths (or
lines as also Races in another sense)...they are primarily beams of
light falling on the paths leading to wisdom...the 7 Rays which fall
free from the macrocosmic centre, the 7 principles in the
metaphysical, the 7 Races in the physical sense."
SD II 191 fn


"It is then the "Seven Sons of Light"--called after their planets (by
the rabble) often identified with them--namely Saturn, Jupiter,
Mercury, Mars, Venus...the Sun and Moon, which are...our heavenly
Parents, or "Father," synthetically...the 4 exoteric planets, and the
3 others...were the heavenly bodies in direct astral and psychic
communication with the Earth its Guides, and Watchers--morally and
physically...their "Regents" or Rectors with our Monads and spiritual
faculties." SD I 575


"The 7 Beings in the Sun are the 7 Holy Ones, Self-born from the
inherent power in the matrix of Mother substance. it is they who send
the 7 Principal Forces, called rays, which at the beginning of Pralaya
will center into 7 new Suns for the next Manvantara. The energy from
which they spring into conscious existence in every Sun, is what some
people call Vishnu (fn) which is the Breath of ABSOLUTENESS. (FN) In
the same manner as a man approaches a mirror placed upon a stand,
beholds in it his own image, so the energy or reflection of Vishnu
(the Sun) is never disjointed but remains in the Sun as in a mirror
that is there stationed."(Vishnu Purana) SD I 290



OTHER TITLES


ARAHAT (Sk.) Also...Arhat, Arhan, Rahat, etc., "the worthy one,"
lit. "deserving divine honors"...first given to the Jain and
subsequently to the Buddhist holy men initiated into the esoteric
mysteries. The Arhat is one who has entered the best and highest
path, and is thus emancipated from re-berth." GLOS. 28


ALAYA (Sk.) The Universal Soul (See SD I 47...) GLOS. 14
"Alaya is literally the "Soul of the World" or Anima Mundi, the
"Over-Soul" of Emerson, and according to esoteric teaching it changes
periodically its nature. Alaya though eternal and changeless in its
inner essence on the planes which are unreachable by either men of
Cosmic Gods (Dhyani Buddhas), alters during the active life-period
with respect to the lower planes, ours included. During that time not
only the Dhyani-Buddhas are one with Alaya in Soul and Essence, but
even the man strong in the Yoga(mystic meditation) "is able to merge
his soul with it" (Aryasangha, the Bumapa school). This is not
Nirvana, but a condition next to it. Hence the disagreement. Thus,
while the Yogacharyas (of the Mahayana school) say that Alaya is the
personification of the Voidness, and yet Alaya (Nyingpo and Tsang in
Tibetan) is the basis of every visible and invisible thing, and that,
though it is eternal and immutable in its essence, it reflects itself
in every object of the Universe "like the moon in clear tranquil
water;" other schools dispute the statement. The same for
Paramartha..." SD I 47


AVATARA (Sk.) Divine incarnation. The descent of a god or
some exalted Being, who has progressed beyond the necessity of
Rebirths, into the body of a simple mortal. Krishna was an avatar of
Vishnu...There are two kinds of avatars: those born from woman, and
the parentless, the anupadaka."
GLOS 44


ANUPADAKA (Sk.) "parentless," "self-existing"...A term applied
to certain self-created gods, and the Dhyani Buddhas." GLOS 25


"The term Anupadaka, "parentless," or without progenitors, is a
mystical designation...[of] celestial beings, the Dhyan-Chohans or
Dhyani-Buddhas, are generally meant. But as these correspond
mystically to the human Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, known as the
"Manushi (or, human) Buddhas," the latter are also designated
"Anupadaka," once that their whole personality is merged in their
compound 6th and 7th principles--or Atma-Buddhi, and that they have
become the "diamond-souled" (Vajra-sattvas), the full Mahatmas...The
mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the
universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Manushi-Buddha; and
even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka is a latent state."
SD I 52 [GLOS 25]



BHIKSHU (Sk.) In Pali Bhikku. the first followers of Sakyamuni
Buddha ... "mendicant scholar"... 2 classes: Sramanas ... esoteric
mendicants who control their nature by the (religious) law, and
exoteric mendicants who control their nature by diet..." GLOS
56



BODHISATTVA - NIRMANAKAYA (Sk.) "Remember, thou that fightest for
man's liberation,* each failure is success and each sincere attempt
wins its reward in time." * This is an allusion to a well-known
belief in the East...that every additional Buddha or Saint is a new
soldier in the army of those who work for the liberation, or salvation
of mankind. In Northern Buddhist countries, where the doctrine of the
Nirmanakayas--those Bodhisattvas who renounce well-earned Nirvana or
the Dharmakaya vesture (both of which shut them out forever from the
world of men) in order to invisibly assist mankind and lead it finally
to Paranirvana--is taught, every new Bodhisattva, or initiated great
Adept, is called the "liberator of mankind." VOICE OF
THE SILENCE, p. 69


"A Bodhisattva is, in the hierarchy, less than a "perfect Buddha." In
the exoteric parlance these two are very much confused. Yet the
innate and right popular perception, owing to that self-sacrifice has
placed a Bodhisattva higher in its reverence than a Buddha.

This same popular reverence calls "Buddhas of Compassion" those
Bodhisattvas who, having reached the rank of an Arhat (i.e., have
completed the fourth or seventh Path), refuse to pass into the
Nirvanic state or "don the Dharmakaya robe and cross to the other
shore," as it would then become beyond their power to assist men even
so little as Karma permits. They prefer to remain invisibly (in
Spirit, so to speak) in the world, and contribute towards man's
salvation by influencing them to follow the Good Law, i.e., lead them
on the Path of Righteousness..." VOICE OF THE SILENCE,
p. 77



BUDDHA (Sk.) "The Enlightened." The highest degree of knowledge.
To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and
personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and
learn not to separate it from all other selves; to learn (65) by
experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos
foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is
evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal
and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness."
GLOS 64-5



"KUMARAS" -- THE CUSTODIANS OF THE MYSTERIES --
THE UNDYING RACE


"Alone a handful of primitive men -- in whom the spark of divine
Wisdom burnt bright, and only strengthened in its intensity as it got
dimmer and dimmer with every age in those who turned it to bad
purposes--remained the elect custodians of the Mysteries revealed to
mankind by the divine Teachers. There were those among them, who
remained in their Kumaric condition from the beginning; and tradition
whispers, what the secret teachings affirm, namely, that these Elect
were the germs of a Hierarchy which never died since that period:--

"The inner man of the first * * * only changes his body from time to
time; he is ever the same, knowing neither rest nor Nirvana, spurning
Devachan and remaining constantly on Earth for the salvation of
mankind ..." "Out of the seven virgin-men (Kumara) four sacrificed
themselves for the sins of the world and the instruction of (282) the
ignorant, to remain till the end of the present Manvantara. Though
unseen, they are ever present. When people say of one of them, "He
is dead;" behold, he is alive and under another form. These are the
Head, the Heart, the Soul, and the Seed of undying knowledge (Gnyana).
Thou shalt never speak, O Lanoo, of these great ones (Maha...) before
a multitude, mentioning them by their names. The wise alone will
understand." (Catechism of the Inner Schools.) SD II 281-2


"...the early sub-races had evolved an intermediate race in
which...the higher Dhyan Chohans had incarnated. ( fn.) This is the
"undying race" as it is called in Esotericism, and exoterically the
fruitless generation of the first progeny of Daksha, who curses
Narada, the divine Rishi ... by saying "Be born in the womb; there
shall not be a resting place for thee in all these regions;" after
this Narada, the representative of that race of fruitless ascetics, is
said, as soon as he dies in one body, to be reborn in another." SD
II 275 - fn


"Happily for the human race the "Elect Race" had already become the
vehicle of incarnation for the (intellectually and spiritually)
highest Dhyanis before Humanity had become quite material. When the
last sub-races...of the 3rd Race had perished with the great Lemurian
Continent, "the seeds of the Trinity of Wisdom" had already acquired
the secret of immortality on Earth, that gift which allows the same
great personality to step ad libitum from one worn-out body into
another." SD II 276


"...there exists a power which can create human forms--ready-made
sheaths for the "conscious monads" or Nirmanakayas of past Manvantaras
to incarnate within ... (653) a living Entity consolidating the astral
body with surrounding materials..." SD II 652-3


MAHATMA (Sk.) Lit., "great soul." An adept of the highest order.
Exalted beings who, having attained to the mastery over their lower
principles are thus living unimpeded by the "man of flesh," and are in
possession of knowledge and power commensurate with the stage they
have reached in their spiritual evolution. Called in Pali Rahats and
Arhats." GLOS 201


"A visitor from one of the other planets of the solar system who might
learn the term Mahatma after arriving here would certainly suppose
that the etymology of the word undoubtedly inspired the believers in
Mahatmas with the devotion, fearlessness, hope, and energy which such
an ideal should arouse in those who have the welfare of the human race
at heart...The whole sweep, meaning, and possibility of evolution are
contained in the word Mahatma.. Maha is "great," Atma is "soul," and
both compounded into one mean those great souls who have triumphed
before us not because they are made of different stuff and are of some
strange family, but just because they are of the human race.

Reincarnation, karma, the sevenfold division, retribution, reward,
struggle, failure, success, illumination, power, and a vast embracing
love for man, all these lie in that single word.

The soul emerges from the unknown, begins to work in and with matter,
is reborn again and again, makes karma, develops the 6 vehicles for
itself, meets retribution for sin and punishment for mistake, grows
strong by suffering, succeeds in bursting through the gloom, is
enlightened by true illumination, grasps power, retains charity,
expands with love for orphaned humanity, and thenceforth helps all
others who remain in darkness until all may be raised up to the place
with the "Father in Heaven" who is the Higher Self." WQJ -- ART.
II, p. 39-40


"The real Mahatma is then not his physical body but that higher Manas
which is inseparably linked to the Atma and its vehicle (6th
principle) -- a union effected by him in a comparatively very short
period by passing through the self-evolution laid down by the Occult
Philosophy." HPB ART I 293


WORLD REFORMERS

"...there never yet was a great World-reformer, whose name has passed
into our generation, who (a) was not a direct emanation of the Logos
(under whatever name known to us), i.e., an essential incarnation of
one of "the seven," of the "divine Spirit who is sevenfold;" and (b)
who had not appeared before, during the (359) past Cycles..." SD
II 358-9


YOGIS AND MAHATMAS

"..."yug"--to join. A real Yogi is a person who, having entirely
divorced himself from the world, its attractions and pleasures, has
succeeded after a more or less long period of training, to re-unite
his soul with the "Universal Soul" or to "join" with Parabrahm...one
who has linked his 7th and 6th principles or Atman and Buddhi and
placed thereby his lower principles or Manas (the animal soul and the
personal ego) en rapport with the Universal Principle, then...He may
be classified with the Mahatmas, since this word means simply a "great
soul"... The Rishis--at any rate those who can be proved to have
actually lived (since many of those who are mentioned...are more or
less mythical) were of course "Mahatmas," in the broad sense of the
word...The real Yogis, the heirs to the wisdom of the Aryan Rishis,
are not to be met, however, in the world mixing with the profane and
allowing themselves to be known as Yogis. Happy are they to whom the
whole world is open, and who know it from their inaccessible ashrams;
while the world (with the exception of a very few) knowing them not,
denies their very existence... The exposition of "Occultism"... has
been clear enough to show that it is the Science by the study and
practice of which the student can become a MAHATMA. The articles "The
Elixir of Life" [ FIVE YEARS OF THEOSOPHY, p. 1 ] and...are clear
enough on this point. They also explain scientifically the necessity
of being a vegetarian for the purposes of psychic development. Read
and study, and you will find why Vegetarianism, Celibacy, and
especially total abstinence from wine and spirituous drink are
strictly necessary for "the development of Occult knowledge"...
HPB ARTICLES III 165-167


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